US insider explains serious plans for breakup of “unwieldy” Russia and assignment of its parts to other countries via “peaceful rupture,” per The Hill article, 1/9/19, “Managing Russia’s Dissolution”…(It’s the US that must be broken up. US must end for “regime change” machine to end)

Meanwhile, it’s hard to imagine a quasi-official voice like Bugajski’s coming out in favor of a similar policy vis-a-vis China, which has its own restive regions, and which in geopolitical terms is no more or less of a threat to the US than Russia. One reason may be that China would consider an American call for secession by the Tibetans or Uyghurs to be a serious intrusion into their internal affairs, unlike Russia, which doesn’t appear to have noticed or been ruffled by Bugajski’s immodest proposal….

Even the defense budget is shrinking and barely reaches a tenth of the U.S. [Why is this a reason for you or anyone to break up a country and destroy the lives of millions of citizens?] Through a combination of low fossil fuel prices, infrastructural decay, pervasive corruption and Western financial sanctions [economic genocide], state revenues are declining, living standards are falling, social conflicts are intensifying and regional disquiet is mounting.

Russia has failed to develop into a nation state with a strong ethnic or civic identity. [But isn’t “multi-culturalism” good and pride in historic culture xenophobic?] It remains an imperial construct due to its Tsarist and Soviet heritage. [So you think it’s genetic. Meaning you’re a racist].

The unwieldy Russian Federation consists of 85 “federal subjects,” of which 22 are republics representing non-Russian ethnicities, including the North Caucasus and Middle Volga, and numerous regions with distinct identities that feel increasingly estranged from Moscow.

Instead of pursuing decentralization to accommodate regional aspirations, the Kremlin is downgrading their autonomy. This is evident in the new language law designed to promote “Russification” and plans to merge and eliminate several regions.

Emerging states will benefit from forging closer economic and political contacts with neighboring countries rather than depending on Moscow, whose federal budget is drastically shrinking. Collapsing infrastructure means that residents of Siberia and Russia’s far east will become even more separated from the center, thus encouraging demands for secession and sovereignty.

Given Russia’s ailments, an assertive Western approach would be more effective than reactive defense. Washington needs to return to core principles that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union by supporting democratization, pluralism, minority rights, genuine federalism, decentralization and regional self-determination among Russia’s disparate regions and ethnic groups. [When will “Washington” support any of these things in the Failed US State with undefended borders?]

While Moscow seeks to divide the West and fracture the EU and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by backing nationalist and separatist parties in Europe [what is proof that “Moscow” is doing any of this “in Europe”?], Washington should promote regional and ethnic self-determination inside the Russian Federation.This would send a strong signal that the West is fully capable of reacting to Moscow’s [so-called] subversion. [“The West” should hasten a country’s downfall by meddling in its internal affairs? Does “the West” think the world is a one-way street? Constant US bullying rightfully puts a target of the back of innocent Americans trying to survive in an “ungovernable,” open borders US.]

The rationale for dissolution should be logically framed: In order to survive, Russia needs a federal democracy and a robust economy; with no democratization on the horizon and economic conditions deteriorating, the federal structure will become increasingly ungovernable.

To manage the process of dissolution and lessen the likelihood of conflict that spills over state borders,the West needs to establish linkswith Russia’s diverse regions and promote their peaceful transition toward statehood. [So why shouldn’t other countries promote “peaceful transition” of parts of the US to independent “statehood?”]

Some regions could join countries such as Finland, Ukraine, China and Japan, from whom Moscow has forcefully appropriated territories in the past. [“Moscow?” It’s US that “forcefully appropriates” countries around the world, bombs them to show them who’s boss, for years has paid Islamic terrorists billions to overthrow Syria]. Other republics in the North Caucasus, Middle Volga, Siberia and the far east could become fully independent states and forge relations with China, Japan, the U.S. and Europe.

The sudden collapse of the Soviet Union should serve as a lesson that far-reaching transformations occur regardless of the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns or the West’s shortsighted adherence to a transient status quo.”